MP probes govt over its stance on GMB former workers camped at the company over pay

Zanu PF MP Ricky Nelson Mawere has demanded answers from the government as to what it intends doing to the former Grain Marketing Board workers who are camped at the parastatal's gates demanding their payouts.

Speaking in parliament Mawere said there are about 600 former employees gathered at GMB for the past 10 days.

"They want to get their arrears but there is no response from management. They are just seated there; some are breast feeding. So, I do not know if
the Ministry is aware of this position and I do not know how these people could be rescued because they are suffering. They have been sleeping out in the open for the past two weeks," he said.

Vice President and Minister of Justice Parliamentary Affairs Emmerson Mnangagwa thanked the MP for telling the house that  there are some people gathered at some place who require assistance from government.

"We will certainly attend to the issue," he said.

Minister of Agriculture Mechanization and Irrigation Development Joseph Made said management has been instructed to handle that matter because
management was not responding to the workers.

"So, the matter is being dealt with," he said.